Governing Work in the Digital Age

How we will work tomorrow is not only influenced by technological innovations but also by the way we shape them. The rise of robots, artificial intelligence and platform firms challenges the existing instruments for regulating work and requires new answers.

Governing Work in the Digital Age is a research project based at the Hertie School in Berlin and funded by the German Federal Ministry of Labour and Social Affairs. As part of the project, we will conduct scoping studies to establish research gaps with regard to the key trends of how digitalization impacts the labor market.

News and Activities

Paper presentation with Anke Hassel and Felix Sieker | 6 October 2020

Workshop on Automation, Digitization and the Future of Work | 1 and 2 September 2020

New Working Paper | Humans versus Machines: An Overview of Research on the Effects of the Automation of Work

New Working Paper | Laura D’Andrea Tyson. 2020. Automation and the Future of Work in Germany: A Summary of Research and Policy Recommendations. Working Paper August 2020.

New Op-ed | The future of shopping – Corona as a catalyst for the transformation of work

News and Activities

Paper presentation with Anke Hassel and Felix Sieker

On October 6, 2020, Anke Hassel and Felix Sieker presented their paper “When platform firms transform industries: the effect of Amazon on work in logistics in the US and Germany” at the online workshop “Who rules the digital economy” hosted by Christine Trampusch, Cologne University.

Workshop on Automation, Digitization and the Future of Work

On September 1 and 2, 2020, we held an online workshop hosted by Anke Hassel, Hertie School, in cooperation with Laura Tyson, UC Berkeley. Speakers and discussants included Christian Dustmann, UCL, Zachary Parolin, Columbia University, Uta Schoenberg, UCL, David Autor, MIT, Carl Benedikt Frey, Oxford Martin School, Werner Eichhorst, iza, Monika Queisser, OECD. [See here for workshop program]

New Working Paper

Didem Özkiziltan, Anke Hassel. 2020. Humans versus Machines: An Overview of Research on the Effects of the Automation of Work. [more]

New Working Paper

Laura D’Andrea Tyson. 2020. Automation and the Future of Work in Germany: A Summary of Research and Policy Recommendations. Working Paper August 2020. [more]

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